The prisoners of Sub-Camp No. 7 helped with the local sugar cane fields and interacted with community members. Some even ...
They were German prisoners of war. Many of them were captured in Normandy during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. Some had been members of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's "Afrika Korps" in ...
SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) -- Martha Wetzel remembers seeing German prisoners of war march through the streets of downtown Sycamore during the 1940s. From 12-1 p.m., and 6-7 p.m., the POWs would march to a ...
A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured headlines across the ...
Melanie Cardone-Leathers, a librarian at Longwood Public Library in Middle Island, was conducting an inventory of historical documents in 2010 when a discolored file box containing photographs and ...
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What happened to German POWs clearing mines after World War II
When World War II ended, Europe was littered with millions of unexploded mines. In Denmark, German prisoners of war were used ...
Did you know Abe Lincoln gave an impromptu speech on a front porch at Ridge and Church in Evanston? How about the Underground ...
Not much is left of a once-thriving, tidy little encampment tucked inside a Cook County forest preserve in Des Plaines. Even memories barely exist anymore. Just tales told second or third hand at this ...
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